Dennis Carlson
The investigation into Monday’s incident on Birdseye Road continues after shots were fired during a landlord-tenant dispute.
Lewis & Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton says investigators have many questions that need answers: “Crime scenes need to be processed, they need to be photographed, they need to be measured. All of these things take time.”
Over the past 24 hours investigators have been busy trying to answer questions about what happened on Birdseye Road on Monday morning.
“We answer the questions much like a reporter does. The who, what, why, when and how. Those are the questions on our mind. The past 24 hours, investigators have been doing just that,” says Dutton.
With multiple witnesses to interview and two crime scenes to process, investigators have a lot of work on their hands.
Dutton noted, “What’s not seen on (TV show) ‘C.S.I.’ is the amount of time that a detective or that a deputy takes writing a report. For every call that you take, there’s 45 minutes of paperwork.”
Once the investigation is complete, the case will be handed over to the County Attorney’s office.
Dutton explained, “This case is complex. We have a lot of different people in a lot of different places, and it’ll just take some time. Some investigators worked on processing where the evidence was located on the ground. It needs to be measured, a sketch needs to be made…all of these items need to be put together so a prosecutor can adequately take that case and look at it and evaluate it.”
The people taken to the hospital as a result of yesterday’s incident have all been released.
Source: kxlh
